What was the fictional Arizona town called in Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City?

The fictional Arizona town in Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City is called Asteroid City.

The town is the setting for the film’s 1955 desert story, in which young astronomy students and their families gather for the Junior Stargazer convention. Its name refers to the nearby crater created by an asteroid impact, a defining feature of the fictional landscape.

The film presents Asteroid City through several layers of storytelling. A television program introduces a stage play, and the play depicts the events taking place in the desert town. This deliberately theatrical structure is one of the film’s central formal ideas.

Asteroid City was filmed in Spain, even though its story is set in the American Southwest. The location, roadside architecture, desert colors, and science-fiction imagery were designed to evoke mid-century America rather than reproduce a real Arizona community.